Spy Quotes
241 Spy quotes by 186 unique authors
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No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
— Steve Forbes
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I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
— Elizabeth Hurley
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Spy plots are hard, really hard.
— Rashida Jones
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I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian…
— Elia Kazan
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The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs…
— Helen Mirren
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
— Gary Oldman
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but…
— Gary Oldman
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than…
— Salman Rushdie
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
— William Shakespeare
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
— Edward Snowden
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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
— John Updike
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The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is…
— Evgeny Morozov
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But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty…
— William Shakespeare
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I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all…
— William Boyd
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I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because,…
— Ally Carter
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For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance:…
— William Butler Yeats
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Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can…
— Christopher Paul Curtis
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The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to…
— Daniel Handler
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A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're…
— Mark Haddon
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I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in…
— Ally Carter
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He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little…
— Julia Quinn
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The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably…
— Karen Chance
Who Wrote These Spy Quotes
186 authors contributed a total of 241 Spy Quotes, led by these top contributors: